American religion from the margin to mainstream

2 fast-growing religions were made in America: Mormonism and Jehovah’s Witnesses. They may well still be on that growth-spurt, not just in the United States, but around the world. Both are adapted from Christianity and yet have diverged in ways that many call unorthodox or heretical. Most obviously, both make very significant additions and/or changes to the Bible that 40,000 other Christian sects & denominations around the world uphold as Gospel. Both exhibit qualities of conservative values and extremely high morals and American salesmanship. one might say they’re the ultimate of religious franchising.